Donald Trump’s healthcare plan is incoherent, half-baked and out-of-touch and today’s event was an unmitigated disaster.
Health Care
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In Detroit this afternoon, Donald Trump repeated an already-debunked claim about Obamacare costing 2 million jobs. In fact, similar claims have been proven “mostly false” at least three times.
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Donald Trump, Jr. sure takes after his father–repeating already-debunked lies in an effort to go after Hillary Clinton.
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Paul Ryan spent his speech tonight boosting GOP proposals to reform the tax code, healthcare system and veterans care. Ryan claimed that the GOP’s plans would be a significant improvement over the status quo. But the experts strongly disagree. Take a look below to separate Ryan’s flowery rhetoric from reality: CLAIM #1: Paul Ryan: Republicans […]
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Rudy Giuliani has made a lot of missteps and isn’t slowing down in his false claims against not only Democrats but also his own record. Giuliani blamed President Obama for spreading “propaganda” that “everybody should hate the police” during protests in 2014.
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As a far-right Republican, Representative Sean Duffy has built a career on being anti-choice, opposing health care reform and undermining President Obama. So much so that he was willing to lie to the American people. He lied about Planned Parenthood and about President Obama’s budget to fight violent extremism. He even peddled the lie that […]
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Donald Trump said, “We will repeal and replace job killing Obamacare. It is a total disaster.” With what–your “worthless” and “unworkable” plan?
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“The numbers don’t remotely add up.” [Austan Goolsbee, formerly chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, New York Times, 2/15/16] “The false charms of Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan.” [Washington Post editorial, 2/7/16] “These claims undermine the credibility of the progressive economic agenda…” [Politico, 2/17/16] “[Economist] Kenneth Thorpe of Emory University…has estimated that Bernie’s universal-health-care […]
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Bernie Sanders’ health plan could never, ever make it through Congress. Like many of his other proposals, this plan is unrealistic and it is inauthentic for him to continue to suggest otherwise. As one opinion writer suggested recently, when it comes to Bernie’s promises, “like the emperor who had no clothes, the Senator has no […]